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The Pragmatic Whitman

Reimaining American Democracy

By: Stephen John Mack

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The Pragmatic Whitman

Reimaining American Democracy

By: Stephen John Mack

In this surprisingly timely book, Stephen Mack examines Whitman’s particular and fascinating brand of patriotism: his far-reaching vision of democracy. For Whitman, loyalty to America was loyalty to democracy. Since the idea that democracy is not just a political process but a social and cultural process as well is associated with American pragmatism, Mack relies on the pragmatic tradition of Emerson, James, Dewey, Mead, and Rorty to demonstrate the ways in which Whitman resides in this tradition. Mack analyzes Whitman's democratic vision both in its parts and as a whole; he also describes the ways in which Whitman's vision evolved throughout his career. He argues that Whitman initially viewed democratic values such as individual liberty and democratic processes such as collective decision-making as fundamental, organic principles, free and unregulated. But throughout the 1860s and 1870s Whitman came to realize that democracy entailed processes of human agency that are more deliberate and less natural—that human destiny is largely the product of human effort, and a truly humane society can be shaped only by intelligent human efforts to govern the forces that would otherwise govern us. Mack describes the foundation of Whitman’s democracy as found in the 1855 and 1856 editions of Leaves of Grass, examines the ways in which Whitman’s 1859 sexual crisis and the Civil War transformed his democratic poetics in “Sea-Drift,” “Calamus,” Drum-Taps,and Sequel to Drum-Taps, and explores Whitman’s mature vision in Democratic Vistas, concluding with observations on its moral and political implications today. Throughout, he illuminates Whitman's great achievement—learning that a full appreciation for the complexities of human life meant understanding that liberty can take many different and conflicting forms—and allows us to contemplate the relevance of that achievement at the beginning of the twenty-first century.

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University of Iowa Press

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1587294249

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9781587294242

A Handbook for Evidence-Based Juvenile Justice Systems

By: James C. Howell,Mark W. Lipsey,John J. Wilson

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A Handbook for Evidence-Based Juvenile Justice Systems

By: James C. Howell,Mark W. Lipsey,John J. Wilson

This handbook promotes a comprehensive strategy founded on evidence-based programming for juvenile justice systems to adopt or enhance their current system. The comprehensive strategy is supported strongly by the broad research base that is now available. This strategy recognizes, first, that a relatively small proportion of the juveniles who initially enter the juvenile justice system will prove to be serious, violent, or chronic offenders, but that group accounts for a large proportion of the overall amount of delinquency. An important component of a comprehensive evidence-based juvenile justice system, therefore, is distinguishing these offenders from others and focusing attention and resources on that smaller group. Second, a comprehensive strategy recognizes that serious, violent, or chronic delinquency emerges along developmental pathways that progress from less to more serious profiles of offending. Priority must be given to interrupting these offender careers by calibrating the level of supervision and control of the juveniles’ behavior to their level of risk. The third major component of a comprehensive strategy, therefore, is effective intervention programs that are capable of reducing the recidivism of those juveniles at risk for further delinquency. The Comprehensive Strategy for Serious, Violent, and Chronic Juvenile Offenders is an administrative framework that supports a continuum of services that parallel the development of offender careers. This framework emphasizes evidence-based programming specifically on recidivism reduction, and supports protocols for developing comprehensive treatment plans that match effective services with offender treatment needs along the life-course of delinquent careers, as they move from intake onward, to probation, community programs, confinement, and reentry. Juvenile justice systems will benefit from incorporation of a comprehensive strategy as provided in the handbook.

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Lexington Books

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0739187090

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9780739187098

Cardiff

Architecture and Archaeology in the Medieval Diocese of Llandaff

By: John R. Kenyon,Diane M. Williams

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Architecture and Archaeology in the Medieval Diocese of Llandaff

By: John R. Kenyon,Diane M. Williams

This book acts as a stimulus to further debate and discussion about the archaeology and architecture of the medieval diocese of Llandaff. It presents work at Cardiff and Skenfrith castles and focuses on buildings at Caldicot and Raglan.

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429

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Routledge

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1000161072

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9781000161076

Early Chicago. Fort Dearborn

By: John Wentworth

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Early Chicago. Fort Dearborn

By: John Wentworth

Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.

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134

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3385428270

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The Thirty Years War, 1618–1648

The First Global War and the End of the Habsburg Supremacy

By: John Pike

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The Thirty Years War, 1618–1648

The First Global War and the End of the Habsburg Supremacy

By: John Pike

The 'Defenestration of Prague', the coup d'etat staged by Protestant Bohemian nobles against officials of the Hapsburg Emperor triggered the Thirty Years War. When Habsburg Spain intervened in support of their Holy Roman Emperor relative, what had started as a localised political and religious dispute in Germany, transformed into a European and global conflict. In seeking to exploit the Bohemian revolt, Spanish Habsburg revanchist ambitions directed by the Spanish Count of Olivarez at the economically powerful Dutch Republic were allied with the Habsburg Emperor’s counter-reformation ambitions. After the Bohemian defeat at the White Mountain in 1620 the war widened as the Dutch Republic, England, Transylvania, Denmark, Sweden, and Richelieu’s France all intervened to roll back Habsburg hegemony and restore the balance power. There was extensive fighting across the globe, as the Dutch and English sought to challenge the Spanish Habsburg global monopoly. These colonial wars were a major factor in the Iberian revolutions with brought down the Habsburg Imperium. Professor Charles Boxer called it: “the first world war”. It was a tragic war of attrition but also an epic story of remarkable individuals including the 'titans’ of the era,' Imperial General Wallenstein, warrior King Gustavus, sinister Count Olivarez, and the masters of international intrigue, realpolitik and diplomacy- Cardinals Richelieu and Mazarin. Above all there were the decisive victories of the under-sung military genius of the era, Lennart Torstensson. The Treaties of Westphalia followed a war which not only changed the global balance of power, but accelerated over thirty years the transformation of the European continent from a world characterized by dynasties and the medieval concept of United Christendom to a European order that was recognisably modern.

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Pen and Sword Military

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152677576X

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9781526775764

Uniform Numbers of the NFL

All-Time Rosters, Facts and Figures

By: John Maxymuk

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Uniform Numbers of the NFL

All-Time Rosters, Facts and Figures

By: John Maxymuk

Football is a game of numbers--fourth and inches, the three-man rush, a two point conversion, first down. Even with the obvious numbers in the statistics, rules and game situations, the players' uniform numbers themselves have become part of professional football and its lore. NFL players, like modern-day gladiators, are fitted head-to-toe in protective gear, obscuring even their faces from their most loyal fans. They have become largely identifiable through their uniform numbers. You cannot conjure up Larry Csonka without seeing the number 39 crashing through the line of scrimmage, or recall Lawrence Taylor without imagining the fear his 56 inspired in opposing quarterbacks. This comprehensive reference work lists all 32 current franchises of the NFL and includes brief team histories, statistics and interesting facts. Each chapter ends with an all-time numerical roster listing the numbers 1 through 99 (in some cases beginning with 00) and everyone, from Hall-of-Famer to replacement player, who has ever worn the corresponding number for that club. Four appendices are included.

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McFarland

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1476603987

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9781476603988

Comedy Films 1894–1954

By: John Montgomery

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Comedy Films 1894–1954

By: John Montgomery

Originally published in 1954, this was the first factual history of comedy films and the men and women who had since 1894 kept us laughing in the cinema. It traces the beginning of comic motion pictures and the pioneer work of Paul, Gaumont, Hepworth, Pathe and Zecca. Then comes the picture palace craze and the success of the early Italian and French comedies and trick films. The work of Al Christie and Mack Sennett in America, and the rise of American films, is fully described, as knockabout gives way to slapstick, and salaries and box-office receipts soar. Now come Chaplin, Harold Lloyd and all the other bright figures of the Roaring Twenties, with favourites like Buster Keaton and Will Rogers to the fore. The development of sound and its effect on the comedians is explained, and the story comes up to date through the thirties and forties to 1954. Some of the hundreds of names to whom tribute is paid include Mabel Normand, Larry Semon, Roscoe Arbuckle, Monty Banks, Max Linder, Harry Langdon, Will Hay, the Marx Brothers, Bob Hope, Fernandel and Alec Guinness. These are only a few of the many whose careers are traced. The book is illustrated by a number of carefully selected photographs, many of which are unique. This edition, first published in 1968 has been revised but the period it covers remains the same, 1894-1954, sixty years of film humour.

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Routledge

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1000579190

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9781000579192

GCSE Media Studies

By: John Price

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GCSE Media Studies

By: John Price

Written by an author who has experience of working in the newspaper industry and teaching of Media Studies, this new textbook contains 8 sections based on media forms.

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Nelson Thornes

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0748767037

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9780748767038

Baseball and the Blame Game

Scapegoating in the Major Leagues

By: John Billheimer

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Baseball and the Blame Game

Scapegoating in the Major Leagues

By: John Billheimer

Most baseball fans know what links Fred Merkle, Fred Snodgrass, Mickey Owen and Bill Buckner. It's a pantheon of public failure. They would be harder put to say what links Eric Byrnes, Tony Fernandez, and Babe Ruth, though these players made misplays every bit as egregious. In this smart, highly readable history of scapegoating, John Billheimer identifies the elements that combine to condemn one player to a life sentence while another gets a wrist slap for the same offense. As it turns out, the difference between a lower-case e in some forgotten box score and a lifetime of ignominy can hinge on a number of factors, including timing, geography, reputation, misunderstanding, media bias, and just plain bad luck.

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McFarland

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0786429062

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The Essential Persona Lifecycle

Your Guide to Building and Using Personas

By: Tamara Adlin,John Pruitt

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The Essential Persona Lifecycle

Your Guide to Building and Using Personas

By: Tamara Adlin,John Pruitt

The Essential Persona Lifecycle: Your Guide to Building and Using Personas offers a practical guide to the creation and use of personas, which can help product designers, their team, and their organization become more user focused. This book is for people who just need to know what to do and what order to do it in. It is completely focused on practical tools and methods, without much explanation on why the particular tool or method is the right one. The book discusses the five phases of persona lifecycle: - Family planning — Basic ideas and a few tools that will help one get organized - Conception and gestation — Step-by-step instructions to move from assumptions to completed personas - Birth and maturation — Strategic techniques to get the right information about ones personas out to ones your teammates at the right time - Adulthood — Specific tools that will ensure that ones personas are used by the right people at the right times and in the right ways during the product development cycle - Lifetime achievement and retirement — Basic ideas and a few tools to you measure the success of the persona effort and prepare for the next one - Practical and immediately applicable how-to reference guide for building and using personas – from planning, creating, launching, evaluating, and determining ROI - Invaluable guide that gives you a quick reference for incorporating personas into a product development process - Features all the essential how-to material from its parent book, The Persona Lifecycle, as a quick, at your fingertips companion

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Morgan Kaufmann

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0123814197

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9780123814197

Delinquency in Society

By: Robert M. Regoli,John D. Hewitt,Matt DeLisi

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Delinquency in Society

By: Robert M. Regoli,John D. Hewitt,Matt DeLisi

Delinquency in Society, Eleventh Edition provides in-depth, research-oriented coverage of the essentials on delinquency topics and theories, including juvenile delinquency, criminal behavior, and status-offending youths.

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Jones & Bartlett Learning

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1284208451

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9781284208450

Immaculate

A History of Perfect Innings in Baseball

By: John Cairney

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Immaculate

A History of Perfect Innings in Baseball

By: John Cairney

Getting 3 batters out in order on nine pitches is one of the most remarkable feats in baseball. Since the late 1800s, only 71 pitchers have been able to do it. Yet, unlike other rare achievements in baseball, such as pitching a perfect game, the “immaculate inning” does not capture the same attention or consideration. In a game that is as unpredictable as baseball, perfection, when it occurs, should be cause for both reflection and celebration. In Immaculate, Cairney provides a short history of perfect innings through the stories of the pitchers who pitched them. Beginning with an brief overview of the numbers, the remaining chapters, one for each immaculate inning on record in major baseball, provides insight into the men, their careers and details of the inning itself, from the first recorded perfect inning in 1889 to the most recent string of innings last MLB season in 2014. The names include pitching greats such as Jim Bunning, Sandy Koufax, Nolan Ryan and Randy Johnson, but also many lesser known, if not colorful, pitchers like “Sloppy” Thurston and Bill Wilson. The teams include famous franchises like the Detroit Tigers and the New York Yankees, but also clubs now defunct like the Boston Beaneaters and the Montreal Expos. Using immaculate innings as benchmarks, the book provides an engaging and entertaining journey through the history of professional baseball that will delight both the serious student of the game, as well as the fan who enjoys reading about the game.

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Mosaic Press

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1771611162

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9781771611169

Colonial Surry

By: John Bennett Boddie

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Colonial Surry

By: John Bennett Boddie

This is a collection of genealogical data from important name lists for Colonial Surry, which once encompassed almost the entire southern part of the state of Virginia (i.e., fourteen present-day Virginia counties). Noteworthy lists include Surry land grants, 1624-1740, and various Surry and Sussex censuses and marriage bonds.

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Genealogical Publishing Com

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0806300264

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9780806300269

Letters

A Novel

By: John Barth

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Letters

A Novel

By: John Barth

Basically, [Barth] takes several people from his early novels and has them all starting to write to each other, and to him, their letters and experiences directing the plot. And what starts out as what could be a too-cute literary trick winds up being extremely revealing, as the characters pour themselves into the letters, regardless of whom they're writing to, as the plot skips and slips through time. On one level it acts as a sequel to those early novels, continuing their stories and although it's not really required to read those books, I'm not going to pretend it doesn't help. The best thing to do would be to read those old novels in one block and then move onto this . . . I read them some years ago so I was a little fuzzy on the finer points. But I picked it up. But Barth captures the voices of his old characters well and even if you didn't know who was writing what letter, you could tell. And thus they tell the recepient, and us, about their hopes and fears, they mingle together, they lie, they come unglued, and by the end you sort of get a tapestry of their thoughts. There's a plot weaving through here but sometimes it becomes hard to connect it with six different people discussing different angles of it with you, but I just went with it and enjoyed the writing for what it was. --Michael Battaglia at Amazon.com.

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Dalkey Archive Press

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1564780619

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9781564780614

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The Pragmatic Whitman

The Pragmatic Whitman

A Handbook for Evidence-Based Juvenile Justice Systems

A Handbook for Evidence-Based Juvenile Justice Systems

Cardiff

Cardiff

Early Chicago. Fort Dearborn

Early Chicago. Fort Dearborn

The Thirty Years War, 1618–1648

The Thirty Years War, 1618–1648

Uniform Numbers of the NFL

Uniform Numbers of the NFL

Comedy Films 1894–1954

Comedy Films 1894–1954

GCSE Media Studies

GCSE Media Studies

Baseball and the Blame Game

Baseball and the Blame Game

The Essential Persona Lifecycle

The Essential Persona Lifecycle

Delinquency in Society

Delinquency in Society

Immaculate

Immaculate

Colonial Surry

Colonial Surry

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